• Bloomberg, Thursday, January 23, 2014 10:20 AM

The Tor project from a non-profit group refers to free software that enables users to communicate anonymously on the Internet. It's a technology Edward Snowden seems to admire. Bloomberg's Dune Lawrence notes that in many photographs of Snowden he appears with his laptop. On the laptop a sticker shows a purple-and-white onion that signifies the "o" in the word "Tor," an acronym for the onion router, the software. Lawrence explains how Tor works, the types of searches accessible through the software that don't even show up on Google, and how it began as a project of the U.S. government.

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